Dr Jodie Wilson (she/her) is a second-generation veterinarian from Queensland, Australia. She is a past President and media spokesperson of the Australian Veterinary Association QLD Division, and a multi-award-winning veterinarian. Jodie’s veterinary home was in emergency and critical care, at Australia’s busiest small animal emergency hospital. When an acquired physical disability limited Jodie’s ability to continue in clinical practice, she made the transition from ECC medicine to her other passion – understanding human beings and how to help them thrive.

Jodie is a warrior, and her remarkable resilience, unique perspectives, and ability to innovate have shaped her award-winning veterinary career. As a diagnosed autistic and ADHD individual, with a late-life acquired physical disability, she has lived experience of what overcoming cognitive and physical challenge really looks like. She is a dedicated disruptive influence, and constantly curious about the world, and how to make it a place where human beings can flourish.

Jodie is an experienced life coach, specialising in managing change and life transitions. She has a Master of Applied Positive Psychology degree from the University of Melbourne’s Centre for Wellbeing Science and is currently undertaking research at the intersection of Autism and Wellbeing at the La Trobe University’s Olga Tennison Autism Research Centre. Jodie finds the intersectionality of the world exciting. She is an accomplished activist, advocate, speaker, and writer across a number of intersecting domains, including positive psychology, veterinary mental health, neurodiversity, LGBQTIA+ issues, disability, end-of-life, and parenting. 

Jodie’s expertise in creating positive change for veterinary organisations is uniquely informed by lived experience as both a positive psychology practitioner and a very successful veterinarian, with experience in both primary accession practice and emergency and critical care referral practice. As a successful change-maker, she has experience embedding wellbeing in large organisations, transforming practice culture, facilitating positive deviance, and designing psychological safety programs in workplaces that allow all team members to thrive as their whole, authentic selves.

Jodie’s passion belongs to the people who make up her communities, and her mission is to move the individuals and organisations she works with from surviving to thriving. Jodie is especially passionate about coaching veterinary professionals, as well as neurodivergent teens and young adults, and those living with disability. She thrives in intersectional places! Her coaching philosophy is to journey with her clients toward their best selves, coaching them to travel with courage and curiosity, and without shame. Her practice is evidence-informed, guided by lived experience, and sensitive to context.